Margaret Bourdeaux Arbuckle, PhD - Guilford Education Alliance

Margaret Bourdeaux Arbuckle has devoted her career to advocating for public policy change on behalf of children and families. She has worked in the areas of early childhood, children's mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare and education. She has served as a preschool teacher, a consultant to programs, a parent educator, the Associate Director of the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and while there was the leader and coordinator for infusing System of Care into coursework in eleven academic departments and developing an interdisciplinary course in System of Care. She is presently the Executive Director of the Guilford Education Alliance, an organization that advocates for greater civic engagement in education and education reform. She is a former elected official and has served on numerous organizational boards and commissions. Dr. Arbuckle graduated from Salem College and has her Masters of Education and PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Caroline at Greensboro. She is married to Howard B. Arbuckle III and they have three grown children.

Charlotte Herrick, RN, PhD - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina

Charlotte A. Herrick is a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Community Practice in the School of Nursing a the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has both practiced and written extensively on mental health across the lifespan. She is formerly Chair of Community Mental Health and taught at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. While in Mobile, she worked in a school for special children and co-wrote one of the first System of Care national grants that was implemented at the School for Special Children. Other involvement in System of Care was at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was instrumental in infusing System of Care concepts into nursing courses. Currently she teaches System of Care in the Psychosocial Nursing course and in Case Management in Nursing and also teaches as part of the interdisciplinary faculty team in the System of Care course. Professional and voluntary involvements include the American Nurses Association, the American Psychiatric Nursing Association, the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, Case Management Society of America, Mental Health Associations in four states and is on the Advisory Board for Congregational Nursing for Moses Cone Health Systems in Greensboro, North Caroline. She is married to a child psychiatrist and together they have five children and thirteen grandchildren with another on the way.